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Got on the water at 7:00am with Small mouth on the mind. Started on the right side of the launch, working our way down. No fish. We were back in the channel looking for warmer water or just any bass cruising around. Spotted a nice looking probably around 20 inch rainbow, pitched a worm out he smoked it set the hook. He took me around the boat many times and a long run down stream with a big junp fully out of the water with a roll. Got him back to the boat and took one last dive under the boat snapping the 6lb line. The one that got away... Continued fishing out of the channel and down the shore line. Saw a couple small largies cruising but no success. We through chatter baits, jerk baits, jigs, and plastics all with nothing. Noticed lots of bluegill beds so we pulled out the jigs and worms. Caught countless bluegill, and got into some crappie decided to make a meal out of them, so switched out gear to crappie and ended up caching 15 crappie keeping the biggest. And 2 Small mouth on the crappie jigs!! ( there was about a 4 pound largie following one of the smallmouth as we brought it in) I guess that's just the way it goes sometimes. Overall fun day out on the water, until the speed boaters came out at 11' o'clock :(

Sideburns

5/31/2018 10:32:03 PM

Ive been crappie fishing out there lately too. Some days we caught a hundred. Most were much smaller than those. Little tube jigs worked well for us with or without a float. I caught a 3 pound largie on 1 inch tube jig while crappie fishing out there. The bite died for me last week, but ive been fishing evenings. Nice fish!

502300

6/1/2018 12:49:51 PM

Thanks! If you don't mind sharing, looking at the launch what side of the lake do you catch most the crappie?

Sideburns

6/1/2018 1:48:41 PM

Leaving the launch, to the left slightly and directly across the lake, in the back and towards the left uninhabited side of the woody cove. Those were the most plentiful and aggressive. The bigger female fish I found were actually right a the launch ramp at dark. Suspended right of off (20ft?) the end of the concrete slab! The smaller males were all over the launch slab that night, staking a claim to the cracks and holes in the concrete as their beds! We caught very few on the south end of the lake.

Sideburns

6/1/2018 2:00:35 PM

BTW. There were no triploids put in the lake this year so that rainbow was a holdover, or born on the lake... There's lots of cutts in the lake that that big too! The little bluegill looking fish are pumpkinseed sunfish (not that it really matters)... Tight lines!

502300

6/7/2018 12:39:30 PM

I meant sunfish I totally forgot that they went bluegill :o in fact we didn't catch any bluegill. And that was definitely a rainbow beautiful pinkish red stripe right now the middle

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